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Very nice, very clear voice.

Very good video. This was very nice to see Bertrand Meyer speaking about his work. Thanks for bringing this.

BTW, does he have to take into account the customers who do not see a barber and walk away? That was very funny!!

This is a fantastic technology. The kind we've been waiting for, for 15 years or so.

Fun and creativity! Sounds like a whole program! He definitely has
an interesting approach to management. Actually, more generally,
MS has a unique approach about creativity for software developers.

Not only was it nice, informative and too short, but it was just funny!! I laughed a lot... More like this one.

> "I guess charles could have used a synonym for complicated"

Nothing wrong with Charles, I was speaking of the overall video
and associated posts.

When complexity gets high, it becomes a requirement to
formalize and structure well. In this sense the framework
described sounds like a good help. On the other hand, it is
expected from someone working on low-level device drivers to
have the ability to deal with complexity. Still, it is always a good
idea to write frameworks that lean naturally to good design
and coding practices.

Good interview. And why use the word complicated so many
times? For sure developing a kernel mode driver is not easy,
but the speaker had a clear voice. Also I'd be cautious about
those "write those 1000's lines of code in 5 minutes, and that
will only be a couple lines now". Still the formalization into a state
machine is interesting. Also I appreciated when the speaker said
they're trying to be consistent. Good tools do not try to do your
work, they help you do good work.
How do the mini-drivers fit into this? Are they simply outdated?

Managed code drivers? Ark! One day will come when we'll
spend long winter evenings around the fireplace, telling our
great-great-grand-children (thanks to bio-engineering) odd stories.
A long time ago, there were people who actually understood
what's going on in an operating system. Those programmers
left us a great legacy. Aaaahhh! More, more of those fairy
tales!!

Who said Java was one of the greatest things that happened
to the developer community?

kevinlee wrote:



Tell me the reason that why c++ programmers should move from 2003 to 2005? As a matter of fact, there are still few people use VS 2005 or write C++/CLI code...So, I prefer VS 2003 or VS6...that's my choice.

Even if you do not use C++/CLI, VC++ 2005 compiler is much better
than VC6 compiler. Language support is better, preprocessor is
better, IDE is richer... So far the only code I could not compile with
VC++ 2005 is some forward template declaration. But it's ok. I have heard some people would like to see this feature removed from the language (although unlikely).

Your post was funny The stained glass windows was a good one.

Pierre

raymond wrote:



pierreleclercq wrote:  raymond wrote:  Be careful, Charles the Hammer does not allow posts on religious subjects. He will lock them. Hmm... religious subjects.... You must be talking about this "churn" thing?

Churn is not a religious issue with me.

I keep hearing the word churn from  current and retired Microsoft developers.

For example, see a great video interview with Jason Zander on the various versions of the .NET Framework. He uses the word churn.

I work in an Microsoft based enterprise shop that has its own ERP application and churn is an issue.

However, for my own moon-lighting work, I need both .NET 3.0 and 3.5 or 4.0, Expression, and Visual Studio 2007 ASAP.

I liked your photos!

 

raymond wrote:



Be careful, Charles the Hammer does not allow posts on religious subjects. He will lock them.

Hmm... religious subjects.... You must be talking about this "churn" thing?